Brian Smith

Miami photographer Brian Smith is the luckiest guy on the planet. He won a Pulitzer Prize at 25, he's told Bill Gates exactly what to do for an entire hour, appeared on The X Factor, exhibited at the Library of Congress, dined with the President and 3,000 of their closest friends, shared cupcakes with Anne Hathaway, gotten drunk with George Clooney and married the most beautiful woman he ever laid eyes on...

Amazon Recommends Secrets of Great Portrait Photography

I just got an email of Amazon’s latest recommendations starting off with my new book ‘Secrets of Great Portrait Photography‘ followed by my pal Syl Arena’s book ‘Lighting for Digital Photography‘. While it’s hardly a stretch that Amazon could figure out every author is a big fan of their own work, but how’d they figure […]

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Strobist Reviews Secrets of Great Portrait Photography

“Smith’s approach is rather like a cookbook in that it will spur many ideas of your own. His unselfish approach makes this book a core choice for any location portrait photographer’s bookshelf.” –David Hobby / Strobist   HUGE THANKS to David Hobby at Strobist for his fantastic review of ‘Secrets of Great Portrait Photography’.Hobby goes

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Secrets of Great Portrait Photography Webinar 10.16.12

Please join me for a great webinar of my portrait photography tips to my new book Secrets of Great Portrait Photography from Peachpit’s New Riders. Tune in Tuesday October 16 at 4-5pm ET for this webinar sponsored by PhotoShelter and X-Rite, where I’ll chat with PhotoShelter founder and chairman Allen Murabayashi about my portrait photography

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